Laundry facilities on Oasis class ships

[Ocean Boy]

28 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

Well, it's part of the reason.  The ship's main laundry has dryers that exhaust into a common "room" where the lint filters are, which are cleaned about twice a day, and you get about a 35 gallon trash can full of lint each time.  They are not individual dryer filters that can clog after about 2 uses.  Also, the dryer ducts that take the hot air out of the ship are large enough to crawl through, and this is done on a monthly basis to clean them.  The self-service laundries have much smaller ducts, so are more likely to build up lint in corners.  Finally, the main laundry ducts have steam smothering systems, which introduce steam into the duct to extinguish any fire, while the smaller self-service laundries do not have this feature.  The self-service laundries are a man-hour quicksand pit, taking up more maintenance hours due to abuse by passengers than nearly any equipment outside the engine room.

Have ships that have self serv laundries ever had a laundry fire that you know of?

[chengkp75]

5 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Have ships that have self serv laundries ever had a laundry fire that you know of?

I don't know of any, but given that they would be small fires in nature initially, and if handled promptly would not get out of hand, they very likely never get any headlines, and there is no central reporting of ship fires.  Cruise ships I have worked on have had smoke alarms in small crew laundries (similar to the pax self-service ones, which NCL does not have), so it is a problem.

[matj2000]

20 hours ago, davekathy said:

For us it's all about personal choices and nothing to do with all of a sudden becoming to good to do laundry. 

 

It is not like that for most cruisers.

 

Just the ones on RCCL....

[davekathy]

3 hours ago, matj2000 said:

 

It is not like that for most cruisers.

 

Just the ones on RCCL....

Not us and we also cruise on RC.